Chapter 437 The Demonic Bone's Wrath, the Vanguard Army's Encirclement and Suppression

Bone Prison City, the main hall of the Demon Bone Tribe.

Seated high upon a throne of white bone, "Bone Evil" slowly opened his eyes, two clusters of eerie green flames flickering deep within his pupils.

Below, a scout covered in blood knelt on the ground, his voice trembling.

"Chief... Black Bone, Bone Spur, Demon Husk, Bone Blade... all four outposts have been completely wiped out."

Dead silence filled the hall.

After a moment, Bone Evil spoke slowly, his voice raspy like the grinding of bone fragments.

"Completely wiped out?"

"Yes... all defenders, not a single survivor. The outposts were all burned to ash; not even a single bone remained."

Bone Evil fell silent.

The temperature in the hall plummeted, and the air seemed to freeze. Several Elders didn't dare to breathe loudly; they could feel the suppressed fury within their Chief, a rage sufficient to incinerate the entire Bone Prison City.

"Who did it?" Bone Evil's voice betrayed no emotion.

"We... we don't know... according to the fragments of remnant souls that escaped, the opponent wore black robes and had an unfamiliar aura, suspected to be... visitors from beyond the domain."

"Beyond the domain..." Bone Evil whispered, the eerie green flames dancing in his eyes, "To dare to act wildly within the territory of my Demon Bone Tribe..."

He slowly stood up, his tall frame casting a massive shadow.

"Summon Bone Crack."

Outside the hall, a tall figure clad in heavy armor and wielding a giant axe stepped in, kneeling on one knee.

"Chief."

"Take two hundred in the Chaos Celestial Venerable Realm and fifty in the Early Stage of the Chaos Supreme Realm to the Grey Mist Wasteland."

Bone Evil's voice was ice-cold.

"Find those rats from beyond the domain. Leave none alive."

Bone Crack looked up, Battle Intent boiling in his eyes.

"By your command!"

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Three days later, Chaos Stone Cave.

Nightmare opened his eyes and looked outside the cave.

From deep within the grey mist came heavy footsteps and the piercing sound of bone armor grinding.

They were here.

He stood up and walked toward the cave entrance.

Behind him, eighty elites of the Cosmic Supreme Realm silently formed ranks, their auras cold and lethal.

"Lord, the opponent's numbers are about two hundred and fifty. One in the Middle Stage of the Chaos Supreme Realm, fifty in the Early Stage, and the rest are all in the Celestial Venerable Realm," Zuo Feng said in a low voice.

Nightmare nodded, his gaze calm.

"According to plan, deploy the Formation."

"Yes!"

The eighty people quickly scattered, each taking their position. On the ground surrounding the grotto, dense arrays of Formation bases had already been buried—this was the "Dao Reversal Chaos Execution Formation," modified using chaos origin stones plundered from the Black Bone Outpost.

At the eye of the Formation, Nightmare sat cross-legged, pressing both hands against the ground.

"Formation, activate."

Pitch-black Demonic Flame surged from his palms into the Formation bases, spreading frantically along the array lines! The entire outer perimeter of the grotto was instantly enveloped in a translucent black light screen, its surface flowing with Reverse Path runes and emitting an aura of destruction.

The moment the Formation was completed, the Vanguard Army led by Bone Crack also arrived outside the grotto.

Bone Crack reined in his mount—a ten-foot-tall bone beast—and squinted at the black light screen ahead.

"A Formation?" He sneered. "Did you think hiding inside an array would keep you safe?"

He raised his giant axe high, his voice like thunder.

"Smash this turtle shell open for me!"

"Kill—!!"

Two hundred and fifty Demon Bone Cultivators roared in unison, as various bone spears, bone arrows, and bone arts bombarded the black light screen like a torrential rain!

The light screen shook violently, ripples appearing on its surface.

At the eye of the Formation, Nightmare remained expressionless, simply injecting more Demonic Flame into the array.

The light screen remained as steady as a rock.

Bone Crack's brow furrowed. "It has some tricks... form the 'Demon Bone Array-Piercing Cone'!"

Fifty Cultivators in the Early Stage of the Chaos Supreme Realm immediately stepped forward, joining forces to condense a hundred-foot-long grey-white bone cone, its tip aimed at a single point on the light screen!

"Break!"

Carrying an aura of destruction, the bone cone slammed fiercely against the light screen!

Demonic Flame flashed in Nightmare's eyes.

"Revert."

The runes on the light screen's surface suddenly reversed! The point the bone cone struck instantly transformed into a vortex, pulling the bone cone and the fifty Cultivators behind it into the Formation together!

"Not good!" Bone Crack's expression changed drastically as he lunged into the Formation.

Inside the Formation, it was a completely different scene.

Pitch-black Demonic Flame and chaos qi flow intertwined into a boundless sea of fire, where countless Reverse Path chains slithered like venomous snakes! The moment those fifty Cultivators entered the Formation, their limbs and necks were ensnared by the chains, and Demonic Flame surged frantically into their bodies along the chains, devouring their Origin!

"Ah—!!"

Screams rose one after another.

Bone Crack roared, his giant axe sweeping across to sever several chains, only to see even more chains surge from the sea of fire!

"You rats hiding your heads and showing your tails, get the hell out here!"

Before his voice could fade, a pitch-black figure stepped out from the sea of fire.

Nightmare.

Bone Crack's pupils shrank—this person's aura actually made his heart tremble!

"You're that piece of trash from beyond the domain?" Bone Crack gritted his teeth, pointing his giant axe at Nightmare. "Today, I'll use your head as a sacrifice for the souls of my Demon Bone outposts!"

Nightmare didn't speak, simply raising his hand. The Dao Reversal Demonic Star Flame condensed into a pitch-black longblade in his palm.

Bone Crack wasted no more words, his giant axe swinging down with the power to split mountains!

Clang—!!

The blade and axe collided, erupting in a piercing ring! The violent shockwave forced the surrounding sea of fire back by ten feet!

Bone Crack's arm went numb, and his eyes filled with horror—his full-strength axe strike had actually been caught by the opponent with one hand?

Nightmare flicked his wrist, the longblade sliding down the axe edge, aiming straight for Bone Crack's fingers!

Bone Crack retreated violently, narrowly avoiding the strike, though a deep gouge was left on the axe handle.

"Such a fast blade..." Alarm bells rang in his mind. He no longer dared to underestimate his foe, fully activating his chaos origin as a layer of grey-white bone armor surfaced on his body.

"Demon Bone Battle Body!"

His aura surged by another thirty percent!

Demonic Flames flickered in Nightmare's eyes as he advanced instead of retreating, his longblade transforming into countless shadows that attacked Bone Crack like a torrential rain!

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang—!!

The sounds of metal clashing were as dense as rain! The two fought frantically within the sea of fire, every strike causing the space to tremble!

Bone Crack grew more shocked as the fight progressed—the opponent's blade techniques were eerie and cunning, and that pitch-black flame could actually continuously corrode his bone armor! In just dozens of exchanges, the surface of his bone armor was already covered in cracks!

"I can't drag this out!" Bone Crack gritted his teeth and burned a portion of his Origin, the light from his giant axe exploding!

"Demon Bone Heaven-Rending Slash—!!"

A hundred-foot axe shadow cleaved down from above!

Nightmare looked up, the Demonic Flames in his eyes suddenly becoming intense.

"Unity."

The longblade disappeared.

He pressed his palms together and pushed forward.

A black line as thin as a hair shot from his palms, silently piercing through the axe shadow and through the center of Bone Crack's brow.

Bone Crack's movements froze.

The axe shadow dissipated.

He looked down at his chest—where, at some unknown point, a thumb-sized hole had appeared.

"What... is... th..." He spoke with difficulty as blood poured from his seven orifices.

Nightmare withdrew his hands.

Bone Crack's body disintegrated inch by inch, turning into fly ash.

Inside the Formation, the other trapped Cultivators had long since been completely strangled by the Reverse Path chains.

Outside the Formation, the remaining two hundred Celestial Venerable Realm Cultivators saw their commander's death and the breaking of the Formation; they instantly collapsed and scattered in flight.

Nightmare stepped out of the Formation and looked at the fleeing Demon Bone Cultivators.

"Pursue."

"Do not let a single one escape."